Top 32 Living Out Of The Box Quotes
#1. Protective coloration ... you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box the world prescribed; it was far to small to hold me. So I knocked down a few walls.
Bruce Coville
#2. I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.
Maggie Q
#3. When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.
Banks
#4. I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces
Tony Benn
#6. How quickly, how neatly the chaos of a living person could be reduced to an insignificant box.
Josh Lanyon
#7. So often I speak of "out of the box thinking" and living a "conscious life"; however, not regularly do I meet someone who lives such a life. What an inspiration (and challenge) to see someone who really lives in the now, who looks forward and dares to stop when thoughts turn to pain from the past!
Paula Heller Garland
#8. Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.
Gene Spafford
#9. For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
Joan Miro
#10. My saxophone playing
And my wino career are in a slump
'Cause I find myself now living
In a cardboard refrigerator box down by the Houston dump
Jeff Simmons
#11. When you act for a living, you are lucky enough to get to say things you really want to say. You get lines that you look forward to, lines that jump out like a jack-in-the-box; you're thinking: 'Wait till you hear this.'
Kenneth Cranham
#12. Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.
Jaeda DeWalt
#13. The concept of a troubled, lonely, middle-class, gay fifty-eight-year-old living alone in dusty squalor in a chocolate-box cottage in the heart of the Cotswolds was a hard one to grasp in the context of his sweaty, noisy, hectic, foreign, red-light existence.
Lisa Jewell
#14. Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there's still something good in whatever's left.
James Rozoff
#15. When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that was left over. So I cut a big hole in the box, and I made it like a giant TV set. I brought it into the living room, and I did the news and the weather for my family.
Jack Reynor
#17. The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: drove him crazy so he would not lose his mind.
Toni Morrison
#18. Spending all your energy on one opinion is like confining yourself to living in a box, and most people in a box aren't living.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#19. Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.
David Robinson
#20. Every person is a living treasure box. Listening holds the key.
Mollie Marti
#21. We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers.
Noreena Hertz
#22. I couldn't imagine living the way I used to live. Now people come up to me from the drug days and go, 'Hi, remember me?' And I'm going, 'No, did I have sex with you? Did I take a dump in your tool box?'
Robin Williams
#23. I could enjoy the simple life with a small living quarters, a scratched album of Johnny Cash and a Box of Twinkies
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#24. I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.
Jack White
#25. I had always been told that you shouldn't clean the litter box when you're pregnant, because of your cat. And I think that is overblown - unless you have, like, three kittens in your house that are living outside and eating raw meat, this shouldn't really be a significant source of concern.
Emily Oster
#26. How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.
Lisa Marie Presley
#27. I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.
Kevin McCloud
#28. I live my life outside of the box because when I die they're going to put me into one!
Tyler Perry
#29. There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.
Anna Quindlen
#30. Living in the box means being convinced that other people and our circumstances are responsible for our feelings and our helplessness to overcome them.
C. Terry Warner
#31. Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.
Charles Yu